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Penny provides educational opportunity

Sun., June 13, 2010timer1 min. read

Re: Penny deserves doom, Editorial, June 3

We students at St. Marcellinus have a project called The Penny Project where we collect pennies from around the school, in our neighbourhoods and in the wider community. Once a week, we roll them and put them into a box until the box is full. We number the box with the number of pennies inside and then the pennies go to the bank. Each penny represents a life lost in the Holocaust, and our goal is 13,000,000. The funds will go to Holocaust and genocide education and awareness programs to teach others about these horrors so that they might not ever happen again. These groups also keep alive the memory of these tragedies, so, hopefully, they will never occur again. By getting rid of the penny, you will slowly stop the remembrance of the Holocaust and other such occurrences. Elie Wiesel, who is a famous author and Holocaust survivor, once said that by forgetting the Holocaust, you are killing the victims a second time. Our Penny Project is meant to keep that from happening. Without The Penny Project, many will not be aware of these events.

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You may not think that we can raise money by collecting pennies, but so far, we have collected more than 320,000 of them, and we have worked extremely hard to make this project come to life.

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